but anyway, president obama is making the fight against extreme weather part of his second-term agenda. he believes that science proves it has a human cause. we've been asking martin morano editor in chief of climatedepot.com and michael bruin, he's the executive director of the sierra club. welcome to you both. mark, i'll start with you. when i last spoke to you about this we had a pretty fiery debate about it and you why implacably opposed to any suggestion that there's any real science to confirm global warming or genuine climate change. rather than me getting involved with this i'm going to rest my weary voice box and let michael tell you why there is science. michael, over to you. >> sure. well, you know, actually, i don't want to waste any time on this. the science is settled. we noticed that last year we had record numbers of wildfires. throughout the intermountain west, as you cited. 61% of the country suffered a crippling drought. we had superstorm sandy with a 1,000-mile diameter storm hitting the east coast. flooded my parents' house, caused billions of dollars worth of dama